Nomos Studies in Law, Culture and Power

Established by Nomos: Centre for International Research in Law, Culture and Power (based at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków), this series seeks to encourage the development of critical legal scholarship, legal history, and law and the humanities, towards a radical rethinking of law and legal practice.
The series places at its core a sceptical view on the present status of legality while advocating for a study of the law in relation to its other, that is the practices of excess and violence that sustain the law’s operation. It endeavours to do so, first by offering a forum for critical analyses of current regimes of legality in relation to the law’s historical and cultural embeddedness. Second, it aims to provide a venue for exploring and integrating critical approaches to law, and forms of normativity that have been relegated to other disciplines, such as cultural anthropology, economy, political theory, and psychoanalysis (to name a few). Last, but not least, it will open a space for reflecting on emerging, potential future(s) of legality, while supporting jurisprudential inquiries within utopian and prefigurative thinking, with a view to overcoming both the quietism and the feigned apoliticism of established jurisprudential studies and reconnect with traditions of philosophical reflection on the law.

Proposals for monographs, edited collections and short books engaging with the outlined themes are welcome. For information get in contact with the series editors.